SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InvenSense,
Inc. (NYSE: INVN), a leading provider of MEMS sensor platform
solutions, and AutoNavi, a division of Alibaba Group and China’s leading
provider of digital maps, announced the integration of the InvenSense
Positioning Library (IPL) and the map matching engine inside AutoNavi’s
mobile map application enabling an improved user experience for Huawei
smartphones. This new platform creates a feedback loop interface between
the respective technologies, virtually eliminating GNSS (GPS) signal
outages and navigation re-routing, providing a best-in-class navigation
experience to consumers. This is realized through efficient and
platform-independent Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided
by IPL. The recently launched Huawei P10 and P10 Plus smartphones are
the first models to incorporate this capability. InvenSense’s IPL
processes data from the gyroscope, accelerometer, and barometric
pressure sensors inside smartphones to provide sensor-enhanced
navigation in areas with poor GNSS signal quality providing
high-availability, high-accuracy turn-by-turn navigation user
experiences to consumers.

Through collaboration with AutoNavi, InvenSense’s IPL further enhances
the user experience by utilizing position feedback from their map
matching process to provide valuable feedback to IPL’s position
estimation. Map matching is a technique that takes location data and
best-fits it to a street grid; this works well as long as the underlying
GNSS fixes are reasonably accurate. In deep urban canyons this is not
always the case, causing map matching to snap positions to a wrong
street producing erroneous re-routing. By intelligently fusing data from
the inertial sensors, GNSS, and the map matching engine, the IPL
solution can generate the most accurate positions to the navigation
solution even when GNSS is inaccurate or not available.

“After several generations of successful IPL deployments, Huawei asked
InvenSense ‘how can we make the user experience even better’,” said
Eitan Medina, vice president marketing and product management at
InvenSense. “With the added inputs from the map matching engine, IPL
enables Huawei’s smartphones and AutoNavi’s turn-by-turn navigation to
be more immune to scenarios with poor GPS signals enabling a more fluid
user experience with fewer erroneous re-routes.”

IPL is available now for smartphones using Android, iOS, and automotive
and industrial embedded systems. For additional information about the
InvenSense IPL solution, please visit www.invensense.com
or contact InvenSense Sales at sales@invensense.com.

About InvenSense

InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN) is the world’s leading provider of MEMS
sensor platforms. The company’s patented InvenSense
Fabrication Platform and MotionFusion® technology address the
emerging needs of many mass-market consumer applications via improved
performance, accuracy, and intuitive motion-, gesture- and sound-based
interfaces. InvenSense technology can be found in Mobile, Wearables,
Smart Home, Industrial, and Automotive products. InvenSense is
headquartered in San Jose, California and has offices in Boston, China,
Taiwan, Korea, Japan, France, Canada, Slovakia and Italy. More
information can be found at www.invensense.com
or follow us on Twitter at @InvenSense.